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Karachi: Kidnapped teenager found strangled; 2 arrested

Karachi: Kidnapped teenager found strangled; 2 arrested

KARACHI: A teenageboy, kidnapped in NorthNazimabad more than a month ago, was on Saturday found strangled to death in Ahsanabad after twosuspects told the police that they had killed him a day after kidnapping him despite receiving a ransom of Rs600,000.

“Thirteen-year-old HuzaifaAmir was kidnapped from outside his home in NorthNazimabad’sBlock N on Jan27,” said Citizens–Police–LiaisonCommitteechiefAhmedChinoy.

“The kidnappers contacted the family on Jan29 and demanded a ransom of more than Rs5 million. The victim’s parents did not inform the police, negotiated on their own and brought the ransom amount down to Rs600,000.”

The kidnappers asked the captive’s father, AmirHafeez, to come alone to Kotri on Jan4 with the ransommoney. When he reached there, he got another call directing him to return to Karachi and put the money bag on the main railway tracks in the Malirarea, said another officialassociated with the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC).

“The father followed the instructions and put the amount on the railway tracks in Malir and returned home. He was assured that his son would return home in the next few hours, but it never happened,” he added.

When their child did not return, the worried parents finally approached the CPLC and narrated their ordeal. Police investigators and the CPLC tried to trace the suspects’ whereabouts through their cellphonerecords and got a breakthrough on Feb 9 when the kidnappers again contacted the family.

“The kidnappers called the parents again and demanded more money for their son’s release,” said the CPLCchief. “This time we kept them engaged with the parents and in the meantime tried to locate their hideouts. They kept using different numbers and locations to call the parents and finally agreed to another Rs600,000 to be left near Ahsanabad along the Superhighway.”

Before the amount was handed over to the kidnappers by the victim’s father, he said, the police intervened and arrested the two suspects, identified as Adeel and Murad, and seizedtwoTTpistols from them.

“During interrogation it emerged that Adeel worked at the boutique of the victim’s mother and was laid off a few months ago,” he added. “They told us that since Huzaifa knew Adeel very well as her mother’s employee, they strangled him the very next day of the kidnapping and buried him at an abandoned place in the Ahsanabad graveyard.”

Adeel’s younger brother was also involved in the crime, he said, adding that he was still at large and efforts were being made for his arrest as well.

Acting on the information provided by the suspects, the police later recovered the victim’s body after completing required legal formalities.

“An FIR (86/2012) relating to the kidnapping was already registered with the NorthNazimabadpolicestationunderSections 365-A (kidnapping for ransom) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against unidentified persons,” said the CPLC chief. “The suspects will now be nominated in that FIR and more sections (relating to the murder etc) will be incorporated in it.”